Guild Wars 2

Zileve.2089:

Yes, because conditions need to be worsened. Some logic they used for conditions (certain monsters having stability, but that’s more a property of the particular monster more than any “logic.”)

This is one of those gameplay > logic ideas. I’d love to be a full condition build, run into a pack of ghosts, and proceed to do no damage! /sarcasm

No need for that. Now if conditions would do a % damage to structures or have cond damage increase power by a % for structures, that would be nice.

You’d always do damage regardless. Conditions are an additional effect. It would bring back a challenge in my opinion. Not Lolz bled and poisoned a ghost to death. It would definitely make AC less of a cakewalk then it is now for sure.

It’s a valid opinion just like yours is, there is no need for sarcasm.

Conditions, while useful just don’t make sense sometimes. I want to know if they will make it more realistic at least in the extreme cases.

Ice creatures/elemental should not be able to be frozen, burning should do a percentage more damage naturally. Take a note on embers at least being immune to burning.

Ghosts: Bleed? Cripple? come on, I could see fear and confusion and such but some of those are silly. Ghosts can’t bleed, they aren’t really “walking” so how are they crippled, or poisoned.

Sparks and gas-based creatures being immobilized? How?

Those were just a small example of the many out there. Anet took the time to make wurms unable to be pushed back, ballistas can’t bleed, atleast fix conditions. I don’t think these would take major changes/time.

Extreme lag and 5 second freezes on occasion just in the past 2 days.

Not on my end, confirmed by many of my friends, guildies and dungeon parties.

Today the server side lag was horrendus, 4 different dungeon side parties all experienced it, as well as my friends when PVEing, complete 5 second stalls where movements are repeated only to see it never happened, me and others teleporting around from lag.

This is Tarnished Coast. There has been lots of people noticing, so what is going on? Been happening all day and night.

Okay I see you’re obviously not getting it.

Dungeons are designed to be challenging activities.

10 mins, running past everything and farming tokens is not a challenging activity.

Nor is it forcing everyone to play my way.

Wasabi have you noticed the past updates at all?

Go read the update forum, pretty sure you will find
“Fixed an exploit that was allowing players to skip content.” and similar for other dungeons in the past.
Which means it is not intended.

You guys might want to read.

1. I am not stuck dying continuously. This is a rare occasion. I run through/skip parts fine in every dungeon I have done, which is all of them minus Arah. This isn’t a stop skipping cause I die! plea. This is a please play the dungeon like it was made for.
2. I don’t force/tell/beg anyone to not skip content in game. I stay with the group. In the time it would take me to complain we’d all die.

3. Im not talking about trash mobs, not endless spawns, not guys on the otherside of the map you’d never even aggro unless intentionally, not a patrol that is patrolling specifically so you have the opportunity to avoid etc. The goal isn’t to kill every single target-able thing possible but atleast have time to enjoy the dungeon. In the beginning people would skip one room or so that was annoying. Now people skip every single part possible. So the taking it to extremes with insane examples is pointless.

Remember I said for example, running through a room designed for you to have to fight them, there is no way around, they are all agrooed as you proceed through. That is what I mean.

Example again TA, those first few tree creatures right before the vine boss room. Yea we can all swift past them, but why not just kill them? It would take all of 2 minutes or less.

Yes finding non-skippers is a possibility but can be much of a hassle. On the times I do do that, new exploits come. Everything from people screaming “Nuuuh don’t kill the last boss so I can logout and bring our super low chars in and ninja the xp, or not suffer from DR” to just outright cheating in areas they cannot be hit. That is why I wish it’d just be fixed.

mosspit.8936:

Hilda Raven.8641:

I’d really like to know and I really hope so. I am so, so so tired of everyone skipping every single part of the dungeon except the absolutely necessary bosses. What is the purpose? or me and 3 other players being stuck in a group with an “Lol guardian i can tank all” guy who runs past everything enduring and leaves us all slaughtered. No one is skipping because it is too hard, its just constant skipping because they can. I find it highly annoying.

You play it your own way killing everything and let others play their way of skipping trash. When joining groups, ask beforehand the nature of the playstyle. If it bothers you so much, you should only join games that specifies no skipping.

Your frustration comes from the fact you can’t handle skipping mobs without dying. Playing with likeminded people makes a lot of difference.

You kidding? When my entire group skips it I have no choice but to skip. There is no always dying. I die on occasion, and those are the times when the entire party is dying except the guardian or the thief who conviently self stealths. I can skip and do skip like everyone else absolutely fine, because there is no option with a room full of silvers that the party has just blazed right past. I never stand there and complain and demand everyone come back and do the mobs, I follow the group. Dying comes from trying to do the dungeon as intended only to find out the entire party or half of it has left. So just me and another person are there. Now I just do what the group does, that is the only way.

I am curious as to everyone’s definition of trash mobs. Trash mobs to me means lower than silver, and/or out of the way. SE for instance, those groups of dredge guarding the mortars cannons, we/I can shoot the cannons without agroeing no need to fight every single batch of them and that makes sense. I consider that a trash mob. But a group of silvers on a one way path to the next room, that are auto agrooed when you enter, I just don’t see the point.

This isn’t about making people play the way I want. This isn’t about me saying everyone should walk instead of using fast travel or something similar. Did the devs design dungeons for everyone to breeze past the large majority of it? No. What a waste of time and effort that would have been. And this is not an issue about the mobs being hard, they typically aren’t.

Even asking beforehand isn’t always reliable, there will always be some manner of skipper.

I’ve collected hundreds and hundreds of tokens, I am not new to dungeons, or anything or the sort, just something I’d like to see.

I just feel thats a terrible waste of a dungeon is all. Like TA for instance, 90% of that dungeon is skipped, all except the necessary bosses. Everything else is just spam swiftness and run past. I mean are those really all considered trash mobs?

I’m not referring to the “Bonus Event” parties but like the entire beginning of TA?

I’d really like to know and I really hope so. I am so, so so tired of everyone skipping every single part of the dungeon except the absolutely necessary bosses. What is the purpose? or me and 3 other players being stuck in a group with an “Lol guardian i can tank all” guy who runs past everything enduring and leaves us all slaughtered. No one is skipping because it is too hard, its just constant skipping because they can. I find it highly annoying.

My only hope is this next update starts making parts of dungeons mandatory. No one tries anymore. Even the mesmer nonsense is annoying though it can’t be fixed. Must have 1 mesmer in each group because no one will try to run past the rocks in CoF. I can do it 8 times in front of their face and they just refuse to try, wait for mesmer. I mean honestly? it is not difficult at all. The laziness of dungeoners is irritating. If you don’t skip you get kicked. And don’t get me started on exploits and areas where you cant be targeted.

I believe that may be the case. its a overly harsh action, they deserve a refund for the hundreds of hours of their time lost because the dev’s made a bad recipe. I’m they get it back. I’d be pretty upset. By contrast because someone has more gold than me or more exos than me I’m not going to be upset. Just doesn’t add up xD. Suspend+ remove ill gotten gains was an easy fix.

This is some really messed up stuff. You mean Anet can make a mistake or even intentionally do something like this to make you pay full price and then just say well nothing we can do. Then for all the bans proven false, no compensation what so ever for the lost time just Anet saying well, sorry nothing we can do. That is pretty disheartening, sorries magically fix anything for you guys and we are forced to be satisfied with it even when you are entirely in the wrong, yet when players make mistakes sorry is worthless. I just don’t get how that works you KNOW it was your mistake and yet refuse to do anything about it. -_-

Cathgar.7581:

The Mini Karka, Mini Karka Hatchling and Mini Reef Drake can drop from the mobs and therefore are still gettable. Where as Wintersday mini pets are not going to drop from mobs, but you can still get them from Wintersday gifts on the TP.

Maybe, they should make Ritlok (Digital Deluxe) and HOM pets (GW1) available for trade, I think not.

The main reason people want to make Special mini pets tradable is to make gold, not because they want/need the mini pets.

Your point would totally make sense if we just had one of each, thing is we don’t. I wasn’t trying to collect pets massively to sell later I was shooting for a bell and they just kept coming.

I’ve been on TC forever, since the game first started, even beta specifically because it is an RP server unofficially. Most people are aware of it. I mean I don’t see why you don’t just move to another server if you prefer WvWvW more.

I don’t care. There is ZERO point for multiples. I spent a lot of gems on boxes too, ive must’ve purchased about 100+ boxes in search of a bell. I’m annoyed this has been asked 100 times already why can’t Anet do this. It seriously harms nothing, its over.

You got all your money from making them account bound now and having people play the RNG game in desperation, so please make the wintersday pets tradeable because I, and hundreds if not thousands of other people have 5 and 6 of each with zero use.

4 tries and got the griffon. 2 tries for the soldier.

+1 Please god make them unbound. I want to get rid of my ton of multiples.

No this is not an RNG complaint rage thread.

The events were fun for a bit, even if toypocalypse was a little on the boring/unrewarding side. Sorry Anet but this event was rather underwhelming in total

1. My biggest complaint is these pets. Not about not getting them but having so many, so freaking many!. 4+ of each wintersday box type and still you won’t allow us to do anything with them.

2. When you get a special event, once a year weapon skin or item it should feel awesome, envious. No, I have several of each weapon skin and the sale price on the market is a joke. A handful of bronze at most. Really? What am I going to do with my “luck” of getting 5 popgun skins from boxes when they are selling for 20 bronze.

3. The events got repetitive and boring very quickly, all that intentional recycling content in the tixx ship got annoying. I didn’t find doing the same thing over and over with 1 or 2 new things tossed in “fun” after I’ve done it twice.

I was lucky. I had gold and money to spend on gems, I did have a good haul of gold from selling one of those contract things, that is about the only plus to all of this, I just don’t think every event item should be spammed to hell so that 99% of what you can get is worth less than trash drops.

Right now its rather anything good is account bound, and everything else is garbage. I’m not saying everything has to be worth a thousand gold or anything like that but seriously the black and white extreme is ridiculous.

Skins should be rare, atleast some of them, not that every single skin can be gotten very easily.

Pets need to be tradeable, end of….

You get the minis from the wintersday mystery boxes.

Again I understand they would like to sell things, makes sense but just be fair about it. Say after the duration of wintersday, duplicate pets will be tradeable.

I’m not bothered about gem store crap, spend gold, get gems, simple and easy. No real life money required. I just spent nearly 100 gold on gems for boxes, all good, ended up with a contract and got my money back. I don’t care about that, I care about all these duplicates and refusing to let us use them in any useful way.

Atleast if Anet wants to milk money out of us during the wintersday event then fine, but atleast allow them to be sold/traded once it is over

I know, let us sell or trade. I got a bunch of useless minis now..

Just sold one for a good 290 gold.

I have multiples of every pet, I already have the quaggan. Let me sell or trade them, it is ridiculous to have 4 and 5 snowmen and light golems and not be able to do anything.

Today’s dungeon is bugged. The old quest objectives and the new quest objectives for today run at the same time. We had to repeat objectives 2 and 3 times over. Stop tixx from rampaging was on our screen 3 times in a row. This is so ridiculously bugged.

The RNG is fine, used the 800 gems i had sitting in my account since halloween to buy 10 boxes, got 3 minis in them, as well as the unlimited hair thing going for 105 gold, dye kits and all kinds of things. And that was just 10, the only 10 ive bought.

I just want to say thank you. This update has been wonderful. The main thing I want to thank you for is the jumping puzzle.

Trust me, I have never been able to complete any jumping puzzle you’ve created thusfar and this was the first. Non-frustrating JP I did not spend hours tearing my hair out over with countless frustrating tries. Thank you! Did not take me more than 45 minutes of trying. Please, PLEASE keep it at that skill level.

Also the decorations and everything else so far is beautiful, I can tell someone put in a lot of work and they all deserve thanks.

Thank you for putting skins in the shops, just that one decision should quiet so much anger such as has been typical for past events.

Lastly I wish you all happy holidays, you deserve it.

As far as things being “fixed”, every npc I had to deal with was bugged today. I had to jump around to multiple overflows just to get past some parts who luckily had a non-bugged npc. Sorry but this is super annoying. Nothing has been fixed since yesterday and I’m glad finally after much wasted time to be done with phase one. I really hope phase 2 and 3 aren’t buggy. For a free invite weekend this is a huge letdown even though I am a pre-purchase player I can only imagine what the invited players think. Just better testing.

There shouldn’t be a reason to get 3fps and super lag on major events…this has been happening since corrupted dragon event in ashford during beta, have you not learned how to fix it yet? First time alright, 2nd fine, but several times later?? Come on…..

I don’t get why jumping to winning worlds to wvw is even allowed at all. Why can’t they just enable guesting and everyone picks a permanent WVWVW server that doesn’t change and be done with it. You can go wherever you like, and play with your friends etc etc without this oh that server is winning, switching there nonsense. Just entirely remove the option, guest all you want, locked out of WvW. It cannot be that hard.

Lol many people aren’t paying attention or just too absorbed in their own rants.

1. Dev did NOT say anything about wow nerfing the hell out of clock tower/future JP. He just doesn’t want them in a special event inviting the “Have to!” feeling from people or something that forces you to do them. Relax. All the Oh god don’t nerf it!!! is silly.

2. All these I did it so its wonderful and everyone else should kitten posts are not helpful at all. Actually it is annoying. Not everyone is you, not everyone is a couch potato teenager with fast fingers.

3. All the I couldn’t do it so it sucks!!! Remove it!! posts are not helpful at all. Actually it is annoying. We shouldn’t remove crap just because some people could’t do it, there is always skill involved in every game.

4. Please be constructive guys.

I for one spent 8 hours of my life on clock tower which I will never get back. It was infuriating, but in an addictive type of way so that I couldn’t stop trying. I never beat it but I am not sad. In fact the only change I’d wish for is for it to be untimed. Challenge still exists for the jump junkies, and those who need to think things through more have all the time they need.

Thats it but yes the only thing I cannot stand is the: I did it so don’t listen to anyone else!! That kind of behavior is ridiculous. The world neither revolves around those who beat it nor those who failed. Deep breaths. Halloween was fantastic.

Short and sweet.

Pros: Best fun I’ve had on GW2 so far. Loved every part of the event and you guys did a great job.

Con: After spending dozens and dozens of hours on Halloween content I didn’t get a single skin/endless tonic/ anything special. Not even including all the money spent on keys. That is a lot of time and effort spent on an over-hyped chance.

Gotta say I love this game. Anet you did a great job. I cannot stop throwing money at you and no I don’t buy exotics and super cool armor, none of my chars are level 80 or anything but its fun as hell. Have 5 different characters, all enjoyable. The only gripe I had was about bots and with today’s update about an entire bot team being hired that gripe is gone. I pounded hundreds of hours into this game and haven’t even explored 50% of the map. The dungeons are epic, challenging as they should be. Yes PUG can survive all dungeons. Praise praise praise! Yes, lifetime customer here.

Fantastic job Anet. Please give me more reasons to throw money at you. My paychecks all include a GW2 tax.

But not jumping puzzles, me and my neo-gamer (1 and half years) fingers and reactions just cannot get them…ever. Lol.

Honestly, no complaints. Keep up the good work. I know Xmas update is bound to be special.

There you go, one of the few “Great game” posts without a “but”. You guys deserve it.

Bump so this doesn’t get forgotten. Important bug and all.

I did read your posts, but also read the account restored by the OP way before you posted about it. Chances are he doesn’t realize hes not allowed to use macros and will return to using them, believing he was vindicated because it was okay. After someone’s account is restored not likely he returned to this post to read what you’ve written. Just a thought.

No one should be allowed to Macro. Now by letting him off you will have a kittenon of people botting and playing the “No! I was at my computer the whole time” card.

There are way way too many botters in this game, shouldn’t be so lenient.

Macroing is cheating/botting, as the person isn’t doing it themselves. Come on Anet, be more strict.

Still wondering how you update dungeons and consistently not fix this. On the Up.Up Path, the nightmare tree’s AOE attack does zero damage to everyone. The circles appear, branches come up through the ground yet has no effect.

Please put tokens down for a moment and fix the boss, its arguably more important.

P.S. If you could patch the skipzones on this dungeon I’d appreciate it greatly. 99% of groups I’ve been in skip large parts of this dungeon. Make them complete the rooms to progress its terrible. Tired of people Bs-ing their way through dungeons constantly instead of completing it properly.

For me it is really annoying when everyone wants to skip large parts of dungeon content just because it is easier or faster. I’m just curious if there is anyone left who plays dungeons properly.

Just to note: I’m not referring to the one trash mob guy off in some corner somewhere you don’t want to aggro, I mean the whole “Lets power up defense and speed buff everyone and run past everything till leash pulls them back”

I’m going to bed thieves and mesmers most played. So many thieves in every single game.

I really hope Anet is listening to all the suggestions. (not the rawr take it back to speedfarm mode) but the legitimate ones. Dungeons are so awful now, they aren’t fun, many paths seem impossible and we really get kitten at the end. Things are really messed up beyond repair and it is not just a “vocal minority on forums” everyone in game is saying it too.

Had this problem in other games, intel driver detect will tell you to get the manufacturer’s version, problem is that is no longer updated. Just download the most recent and correct drivers from intel, these generic drivers DO work, and fixes the issue. Did for me previously. Original intel drivers shouldn’t mess up your system over the OEM kinds they refuse to update.